Marshall University started classes on Monday. Classes begin today at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Students at both schools are taking classes either face-to-face or online in response to the pandemic. Less than 1% of the total number of virus tests given to students, faculty and staff at either school have come back positive. The … Read more
Governor Jim Justice announced $1.1 million in funds that will ultimately help domestic violence victims. The STOP Violence Against Women grant program funds will be sent to 27 projects across the state that help police officers, prosecutors, and victim service providers respond to domestic violence. They’ll get tools, equipment, and training. Counties that will benefit … Read more
A woman is suing the WVU Board of Governors after a boulder crashed into her car in February. The lawsuit claims the boulder broke loose from WVU property and hit her car, causing serious and permanent injuries, and that rocks falling from the property was a common occurrence.
Governor Justice says the mask mandate that went into effect last month is helping control the spread of COVID-19. The state is on a downward trajectory of average percentage of positive tests since the mandate went into effect. The state’s positive test rate is one-point-seven-percent.
Another person has died from COVID-19 in Kanawha County, raising the county’s death toll to 28. There are more than twenty new cases for a total of over 13-hundred.
The state is easing restrictions on nursing home visits. The color-coded map that was designed for schools will also be used to reflect how community spread is affecting nursing homes. Visitation will be restricted in counties in the red. Counties in orange will allow “compassionate care visitation,” and counties in the yellow and green will … Read more
A Scioto woman is recovering in a Huntington hospital. Thirty-five-year-old Lydia Rigdon was shot in the chest at a home in Otway. She’s in stable condition. No arrests have been made.
Two men are under arrest for robbing the Gray Wolfe Lodge in Rarden, and attacking an employee. The worker is okay. 23-year-old Ty Howard and 19-year-old Hunter Goodwin are charged with aggravated robbery.
A Jackson County man who cut off his home confinement ankle bracelet is back in custody. Greg Hackney escaped last week. The U.S. Marshal Fugitive Task Force and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office located Hackney and returned him to the South Central Regional Jail.
A St. Albans woman is under arrest for assaulting a deputy. Police were called to a home in Nitro for a domestic disturbance when Carolyn Ann McConaha kicked an officer when she was being taken into custody. She continued to be combative and refused to be fingerprinted. McConaha is charged with battery of a police … Read more